Alternatives, side by side
We make Tipmik, so we're one of the alternatives. Everything here about another app is what its US App Store listing said on October 7, 2026. ServerLife has a free tier and runs on iPhone, iPad and Android; the table shows how the others compare.
- Yes
- Paid tier
- No
- Not mentioned
| App | Free tier | Android | Tip outs | Import | Scans a checkout |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ServerLife | Yes | Yes | Paid tier | Not mentioned | Not mentioned |
| Just The Tips | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not mentioned | Not mentioned |
| Waiter Pal | Not mentioned | Yes | Yes | Not mentioned | Not mentioned |
| TipKeepr | Not mentioned | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not mentioned |
| Checkout | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Not mentioned |
| TipmikOurs | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Tipmik is our app; its row is last.
“Not mentioned” means the listing doesn't say, not that the app can't do it. For all 11 apps, with prices, ratings and what each listing offers, read our comparison of the best tip tracker apps.
Switching to Tipmik
If you pick Tipmik, your ServerLife history comes with you. The rest of this page is how.
Export from ServerLife
ServerLife emails your whole history as one CSV file. These are the steps Tipmik shows when you pick ServerLife:
- More → Account → Export All Data. In ServerLife. Check the email address, then tap Send It.
- Open the email. It usually arrives within a few minutes.
- Save the attachment to Files. Tap the file in the email, then Share → Save to Files.
- Choose it in Tipmik. Open Import, then pick the file in Files.
Where Import is in Tipmik
When you set up Tipmik, one of the first questions is “Coming from another app?” Pick ServerLife there and choose the file. It waits on your phone until you've finished setting up, then Tipmik reads it.
Already set up? Open More → Import from another app. You can import more than one file, and each import is listed there.
What Tipmik does with the file
The file is read on Tipmik's server, not on your phone, so the rules below are the same for everyone.
It repairs the text
ServerLife's export damages some characters: apostrophes, quote marks and dashes in your notes come out as unreadable bytes, and emoji are cut in half. Tipmik puts the punctuation back. Emoji can't be recovered, so they're dropped rather than left as junk. The story after a read tells you how many rows had text repaired.
It sorts every row
The export has a row for every day you entered: shifts, paychecks and days off together. Tipmik routes each row to a shift, a paycheck or a day off, and skips empty rows. Paychecks and days off are kept apart, not counted as shifts. You can include a paycheck as a shift from the preview if that's what it was.
- Tips are the Amount column when it's filled, else cash plus credit, row by row.
- Tip in, tip out, sales, hourly wage, job and position come across with each shift, and so do your notes, up to 500 characters each.
- A note that splits the night into cash and card is used only when the split adds up to the total.
- A close past midnight stays on the day it started. A double stays two shifts on the same day.
- Rows that name no job go to the file's one job, when it has one.
Gig work stays apart from your tips
Rows for Uber, Uber Eats, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart, Grubhub and other gig platforms become their own contractor jobs. What the file says a run paid is recorded as pay, to the cent, not as tips, because a payout mixes base pay with customer tips.
Missing hours are estimated and marked
A row with tips but no hours gets the usual length of that job's shifts in the file. Those shifts are marked as estimated, and they're left out of every hourly figure, so a guess never moves your take home per hour. Enter real times in Log shift and the mark goes away.
You check it before anything is added
After the read, Tipmik shows what the file holds: how many shifts, from when to when, how much in tips, across how many jobs. Then “Check, then import” lists what will be added and what was skipped. Nothing is written until you tap Import.
Shifts Tipmik already has are skipped. A match is the same job, day, times and amounts, never the day alone, so importing the same file twice doesn't double your history.
You can undo it for 30 days
Every import can be undone from More → Import from another app for 30 days. Undo deletes that import's shifts, and the jobs it added unless you've used them since.
Other apps and spreadsheets
The same import takes TipSee's Excel backup, CSV exports from Waiter Pal and TipTracker, and a spreadsheet saved as CSV or Excel from Numbers, Excel or Google Sheets. Tipmik shows the export steps for each one when you pick it, and they're all on one page: how to import your tip history.
What's different in Tipmik
- Scan your checkout. Photograph your end-of-shift checkout, or pick up to four screenshots from a tip payout app, and Tipmik fills in Log shift for you to check. Nothing is saved until you do.
- Take home per hour. Tips plus tip ins and wages, minus tip out, over the hours you worked. Totals ranks your shifts, weekdays, parts of the day and jobs by it.
- Goals. Daily, weekly, monthly or yearly targets for take home, tips, hours, average hourly or tip percentage. Daily, weekly and monthly goals show on the Calendar beside your shifts.
- Tax tools. Optional, and off until you turn them on: track qualified tips under the no tax on tips deduction, check monthly declarations, and compare your W-2.
- Tip shares. Record each tip in and tip out as its own line, who it went to and how it was worked out.
What it costs
Tipmik has no free tier. It's 3-day free trial, then $19.99/year or $4.99/month, billed through the App Store. Everything, import included, is part of the subscription. You can try it with your own history for the 3 days of the trial.